Feed Your Brain

Love science? Have a t-shirt of the periodic table of elements? Like to explain to strangers how the universe works? Do you want to tap that asymptote? Do you solve differential equations for fun? Did you build your own hard drive? This blog is about the Queen Mother: Science and all her offspring (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Technology, Mathematics) Here, you'll find videos, pictures, articles, news, questions and answers, and even hypothetical science. Ready? Eat up! PS: Feel free to contribute.

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Herkimer Diamond (Quartz)

These are highly vibrational and powerful stones. Really great for connecting your earth self to the astral plane. Wonderful for astral projection and meditation. Use on 3rd eye and crown chakras. 

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Death Valley: A vast space, full of surprises For a location with a name as forbidding as Death Valley, this extreme location has a surprising amount of life — from miles of wildflowers blooming after rare rainstorms, to oases that are home to tiny fish. This may be the hottest place on the planet, and the driest place in North America, but it is a national park that you’ll want to see during your lifetime. Click through this photo gallery to see why.

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Manatees, Florida Photo: Paul Nicklen

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this is me inside

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A rare specimen of Shattuckite as pseudomorps after crystals of Calcite, associated with Dioptase and Plancheite. Tantara Mine,  DR Congo

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Tab. III Scolia quinquepunctata and Tenthredo germanica (Wasp). 

Jacob Sturm (1796) Verzeichniss meiner Insecten-Sammlung

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Steve White WEIRD SHARKS I by ~SharkeyTrike

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Sacrifice - Tiffany Bozic

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Diagram of the Horse’s eye by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Rural life described and illustrated, in the management of horses, dogs, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, etc. etc. :. London ;London Printing and Pub. Co.[between 1868 and 1888]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20715503

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A red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas). This species can be found throughout most of Central America, as far north as southern Mexico.

Credit: Joel Sartore

Source (UNL News Releases, University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

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Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia and Apoda (frogs, toads, and cœcilians) of southern India by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Madras :Superintendent, Government Press,1888.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9661496

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OCTOPUS biro pen © sarah esteje

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The Manhattan Project

Some of the greatest advances in science have come from humanity’s more destructive impulses. This is not the fault of science - when we discover powerful truths about the universe it’s up to us to decide how to use them because they can either be boons or banes to the world. There may be no better example of this than the work done by the Manhattan Project - the years long, multinational effort to develop an atomic bomb during World War II. The project created unfathomably destructive weapons and led to a 50 year Cold War with the USSR, but is also the source of a lot of information about the atom we didn’t have before, which has led to advances in many beneficial fields, like energy production and medicine. Science, like history, is always complicated.

References for this episode can be found in the Google document here: http://dft.ba/-4WtS

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Iris Germanica 

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“The Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever”

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/this-is-most-detailed-picture-internet-ever

*Hacker who pulled it off brags in detail about his technique, dabbles in dazzling infoviz:

http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html

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Tiny implant can transmit realtime blood data to your doctor.

Researchers at Switzerlands EPFL have demonstrated a 14mm long implant, able to analyse up to five proteins and organic acids in the blood simultaneously, and transmit the data to a doctor.

The data transmission works in several stages, with the implant using radio waves to transmit to a patch on the skin (which also provides power back to the implant through the patients skin). The patch then uses bluetooth to transmit data to a smartphone, which can then feed it into a web-based database accessible by a doctor.

The implant could be particularly useful in chemotherapy applications. Currently, oncologists use occasional blood tests to evaluate their patients’ tolerance to a particular treatment dosage. In these conditions, it is very difficult to administer the optimal dose. De Micheli is convinced his system will be an important step towards better, more personalized medicine. “It will allow direct and continuous monitoring based on a patient’s individual tolerance, and not on age and weight charts or weekly blood tests.”

In patients withchronic illness, the implants could send alerts even before symptoms emerge, and anticipate the need for medication. “In a general sense, our system has enormous potential in cases where the evolution of a pathology needs to be monitored or the tolerance to a treatment tested.”